A few months ago, my son decided that he would like to have an ebike, and decided that his 1992 Mongoose 325 700c hybrid (at that time in my possession) would be an ideal platform for mounting the…Continue

The Upper Sturt CFS will again be conducting a sausage sizzle in Stirling for the TDU.Times will be a bit different this year, to take into account the start at Stirling, rather than the finish of…Continue

This weekend, 16/1 to 17/1, I found a pump on the traffic island of Cross Rd, Kings Park, at the cross-over from Jellicoe Ave to Llanfair Tce. It would seem that it has fallen from someone's bag, as…Continue

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"Location! Location! Location!
Some of them may be located with poor positioning on the road, but they are really good when one is in a fire truck and looking for a standpipe point. (I am in the CFS.)
I believe the idea came from within SA Water,…"

"Also, that footbridge (which crosses the Sturt R. at McNamara Ford) near Horner's Bridge (bottom of Murray's Hill Rd) links to Light Rd, then out to the top of MHR by Lyric Pl. Good alternative to MHR in both directions. To avoid the…"

"That's it. I'm not sure whether the gantry, on the earlier boundary of the prison land, was used for prison staff in supervising loading of quarry trains and preventing escapes, or whether it was a railway signal gantry, or both."

"Plenty of parking (32 spaces in these racks). The only problem is that they moved the station away from the bike parking. (Although the station might return to its old location with the nearby grade-separation project.)"

"not the same but on Linear Park Trail there is a 'blind corner' at an underpass. It's well signed, but the blind corner is further obscured by foliage. Most people will have the instinct to venture right, which of course is completely…"

Prefer bike, or bike/train over car, if load to be carried and time constraints permit.
My wife (we have been married 44 years) only learned to ride a bike after we were married, although much of our courting was in the presence of my bike.

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I grew up in a household where riding a bike was "normal". When we lived in the country, my Dad didn't ride to work, because that would have been silly. With many country railway workers, home and work were, almost literally, only the side gate apart. When Dad was transferred to the Pt Adelaide gang, he would regularly ride from Mansfield Park to the Port for work, even though we owned a car. What stopped him wasn't either of the couple of accidents going to work, but a severed Achilles…

For some years, I had been investigating buying or building an Ebike as a replacement for for most of my car-as-driver-only journeys from the city to Upper Sturt, a sort-of "reverse commute". It was in doing this research that I first stumbled upon AC.

My investigations revealed that for my purposes, a mid-motor, chainwheel drive arrangement would be best, as this makes the bike gears available to the motor, unlike hub motors of any sort, and, incidentally, unlike all petrol motor…

I took the Gitane out for a ride today, the first (apart from "setting up") since I got it. From near Hadleigh Rise, Upper Sturt, into Stirling, and return, via Sturt Valley Road.

The bike is now set up as 3x7 (48/38/28, 11-28) instead of the original 2x6. The triple came about because the chainwheel-side crank on the double was bent, so a new crankset was needed anyway. A headstem with a…

I got caught in the very heavy rain last Tuesday, and the BSA got saturated (not to mention the rider). However, it seemed to have dried out fairly well.

But this morning, going to and from the Community Bike Workshop at Plympton, I was having trouble getting the outside sprocket (high gear) on the cassette. It would not change the final step unless I backed off, went down one, and then changed two at once.